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Title: If You Don't Write Fiction

Author: Charles Phelps Cushing

Release Date: September 8, 2008 [EBook #26557]

Language: English

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IF YOU DON'T
WRITE FICTION

By
CHARLES PHELPS CUSHING

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
1920

Copyright, 1920, by
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO.

_Printed in the
United States of America_

Published. June, 1920

TO
COUSIN ANN

who "doesn't write fiction," but who is ambitious to market magazine
articles, this little book is affectionately dedicated. If it can save
her some tribulations along the road that leads to acceptances, the
author will feel that his labors have been well enough repaid.

The author thanks the editors of _The Bookman_, _Outing_ and the _Kansas
City Star_ for granting permission to reprint certain passages that here
appear in revised form.

C. P. C.

PREFACE

The publisher assures me that no one but a book reviewer ever reads
prefaces, so I seize upon the opportunity to have a tete-a-tete with my
critics. Gentlemen, my cards are face up on the table. I have declared
to the publisher that nearly every American who knows how to read longs
to find his way into print, and should appreciate some of the dearly
bought hints herei